Tasker Oddie

Tasker Oddie (20 October 1870-17 February 1950) was Governor of Nevada (R) from 2 January 1911 to 4 January 1915 (succeeding Denver S. Dickerson and preceding Emmet D. Boyle) and a US Senator from 4 March 1921 to 3 March 1933 (succeeding Charles B. Henderson and preceding Pat McCarran).

Biography
Tasker Oddie was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1870, and he practiced law in New York until 1898, when he moved to Nevada to become a business agent and attorney. In 1900, he made his fortune in the silver boom in Tonopah, becoming the manager of the Tonopah Mining Company and Nye County District Attorney. Oddie served in the State Senate from 1903 to 1906, as Governor from 1911 to 1915, and in the US Senate from 1921 to 1933, and he oversaw the enfranchisement of women, the sanctioning of a state motor vehicle law, mining safety legislation, and improvements to workmen's compensation benefits. He died in San Francisco in 1950.